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This is a 30 page paper discussing various questions relating to ancient roots of Western cultural heritage. In regards to a review of ancient roots of Western cultural heritage, various philosophies, concepts, ideals, and political systems are included. References are made to works by Hesiod, Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Lucretius, Aeschylus, Euripides among others in relation to the complex myths, social and political relationships and man’s relationship to nature. Included in the concepts of behavior, punishment and the role of myths in social and political systems, references to the Code of Hammuradi, Genesis, Theogony and Enuma Elish are included among others. Many of the ancient philosophies can be applied to artifacts, political realms and situations in the modern world.
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Hesiod, Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Lucretius, Aeschylus, Euripides among others in relation to the complex myths, social and political relationships and mans relationship to nature. Included in the concepts of
behavior, punishment and the role of myths in social and political systems, references to the Code of Hammuradi, Genesis, Theogony and Enuma Elish are included among others. Many of the
ancient philosophies can be applied to artifacts, political realms and situations in the modern world. Section A 1. Select three artifacts of our culture. These can be articles, cartoons, pictures.
Identify what ideas are present in them from the ideas and concepts studied in ancient cultures. Tell how you would have reacted to the artifacts prior to this semester. Finally,
tell how well the artifacts use the ideas and concepts you have identified. The artifacts chosen for this portion of study are three articles from the BBC News all
posted on Friday, May 2, 2003. The three articles deal with different issues but would be considered relevant artifacts in regards to this period of time in history. The first
article is entitled "Key Iraqi weapons official held"; the second "China fears many new SARS cases"; and the third, "Massacre in a Sicilian town hall". The main ideas presented
in the article "Key Iraqi weapons official held" in relation to topics studied in the roots of Western Culture deal primarily with regard to the different types of government, political
states and leadership. In addition, in similarities found in the depictions of the Greek and Trojan wars, this article in regards to an artifact has shown that little has changed
in the amount of warfare over the course of two thousand years. While in the article, one of the Iraqi leaders is called a member of the Republican Command Council,
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